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Know Your Anvils
The anvil. One of the standard items in Wile E. Coyote’s arsenal as well as a favorite implement of disaster in many a Three Stooges short. Once a commonplace item used not just by blacksmiths but in a number of industrial and agricultural settings, today the anvil languishes in the backwaters of technology.
Here you can learn about the many kinds of anvils and their myriad uses.
Comments:
Fascinating Stuff! I enjoyed the link to the anvil vices as I was very puzzled to see my g-g-grandfather described a “coach builder’s viceman” on an 1871 census. It was some time before I discovered that a viceman was a smith who worked with a vice rather than an anvil. I enjoyed seeing the tools he might have used as I’ve never been able to find out much about this type of smithing :)
Posted by Shelagh [URL] on 05/04/07